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Newspaper Page TextYanks Swing Through 20-Mile Hole in Line Near Metz Weather fortcutt Cloudy with thowtrt tonight and, Saturday; colder tonight. r. , Ttmp. Blfheit yttterday ,, 4t Lowtit this morning 40 Prae. . rait II hours , Thirty-ninth Year I GROWS IN FINAL Totals Now 239,967 to 219,--680. With Two Vanport Precincts to Be Reported. Portland, Ore., Nov. 10 (U.F0 'The tabulation of returns for Tuesday's election was virtual ly complete today, with only two precincts out of Oregon's 182S as yet unreported,' In the populous Vanport housing com munity In Multnomah county. With each additional return f from the metropolitan section 01 Multnomah county,. President Franklin Roosevelt's majority over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey con tinued past the 20,000 mark in the statewide returns, with a lead of more than 24,000 in Multnomah county alone. He lost the up-state section by tbout 4,100. . : ' Morse, Cordon Strong In the stretch race for the U. S. senate, the ' large majorities piled up by Republicans Wayne L. Morse and Guy Cordon con tinued to grow, although re turns from predominantly Demo cratic Vanport slowed down the Sains somewhat. Of the two contests for state offices, by far the closest was that for attorney general, with Incumbent George Neuner lead ing Challenger Bruce Spaulding by only 5,078 votes. He ap peared to be safe, however, with nrobablv not enough votes un- counted to. kill his majority. Leslie M. Scott, who received the largest number of votes cast tor any single candidate in urc primary election in May, had outstrinrjed- 'Challenger William T. Lambert,. leading.him by 64,- oii voies. - Returns from 1827 of the state's 1829 precincts gave: - President Roosevelt 239.867; Dewey 219,680; Thomas - (D 8,772; Watson (I). 8,210. Senate Short term, MaTt'ohey", 03), 188,075; Cordon. (R), 247,- 439.- Senate Lorg term, Smith (D), 164,400; Morse OOi. 257,147. Vol Shrinks As the last returns came in slowly, it appeared that the. vote in the state was slightly smaller than had been estimated by state officials earlier. A. total of an ' votes cast in the presidential race, excluding the five unre ported precincts, showed 4S, 657, or some 20,000 fewer than i Aon nnn t,n,i1 . Approximately 75 per cent of the voter turned out to cast their ballots. Previous estimates ranged from 73 to 80 per cent, About 79 per cent of Oregon's voters cast ballots in 1940, when Roosevelt -was running for a third term, but only 59 per cent voted in the by-election two years ago. The four representatives of Oregon in the congress were all returned in the election by sub stantial majorities. BAD CHECK ARTIST IS RETURNED BY SHERIFF Fred Parkhill, also known as Fred J. Batty, charged with ob taining money under falsa pre tenses, has been returned here from Seattle by the sheriff's office. The sheriff' reports Parkhill will enter a plea of guilty and' is writing a state ment covering his operations here. The district attorney re ports he has a long criminal rec ord. During his stay here he al legedly cashed spurious checks totalling between $500 and $600 and was employed as a cook. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Cautious motorists lingering at the Main and Central inter section many minutes .before finding out that the traffic light was stuck on red. Bill Cramer, Jimmy Hall and Tony Manno undecided as to who owned a dollar after hand ing it around several times in payment of election bets. Ike Stenerson highly exhili- rated by success of his candi dates for constable.' Michigan pulling Hemmerley Conger out of a bad financial situation. United Pi m ru Monstrous New Strike From Stratosphere; Less Terrifying Than Y-ls By Robert Musel United Press Staff Correspondent -London, Nov. 10 (U.R) Germany's monstrous new V-2 rock ets strike unseen and unheard from the stratosphere. If you were within range, you would never know what hit you. They dive out of the sky so fast 1000 miles an hour-you don't have time to be scared. ... But the fantastic speed at-. tained by the rockets robs them of most of what the Germans un doubtedly intended should be their principal effect terror. . ' Outstrips Sound Traveling 60 to 70 miles high in the stratosphere, they cannot be seen, while they . outstrip sound in their descent. They carry only a ton of ex plosives despite their over-all length of perhaps 30 to 50 feet. And that is only one-sixth of the weight of the great "Earthquake" bombs being unloaded on Ger many by the Royal Air Force. In most ways, the rockets have not even measured up to the smaller- jet-propelled V-l robot bombs, let alone the terror of the all-night fire raids by Ger man bombers in the 1940-41 blitz on London. Although they carry the same weight of explosives as V-l, they have less blast effect than their predecessors because, they pene trate deeper before exploding. Thus there have been fewer cases of death and maiming from scattered glass than was the case With V-l. Some Hit Sea Not all of the rockets have even reached England, and many of those which did fell in open country. Some fell in the sea. Others exploded in mid-air, scat tering fragments far and wide. Self-appointed experts have guessed that -the missiles may have come as much as 200 miles, probably' from Holland. There 31 TO SERVE YEAR; RETRIAL DENIED Salt Lake City, Nov. 10 (U.R) -District Judge M. J. Bronson today sentenced 31 fundamen talists to a year in jail for con spiracy to practice polygamy. . Defense requests for a new trial and a reversal of verdict were denied by Bronson but spokesman for the cultists im mediately began to work for an appeal to the state supreme court. One lone fundamentalist, Wesley Lebaron, who ditched his four attorneys last month because they "are against me since the story about my taking a 14-year-old girl in plural mar riage came out, was confined today to the county jail after his bondsmen withdrew Lebaron's $1500 bond. Stay For Appeal Twenty-eight others were giv en until next Friday to prepare appeal bonds. Sentences for two women, Juanita and Mary Beth Barlow, were temporarily suspended pending a supreme' court decision as to whether the state district court has jurisdic tion over persons under 18. Only one of the 11 women sentenced today is childless. The others have a total of 18 children. All 31 defendants sen tenced have a total of 310 chil dren. Nazi Propaganda Bolsters Belief Hitler Is Kaput London, Nov. 10 (U.R) De ductions from the always sus pect Nazi propaganda line today bolstered a growing possibility that something has happened to Adolf Hitler. A suggestive butby no means conclusive item was a German broadcast heard by the Daily Ex press which exhorted Nazis to "remember our feuhrer" as part of their "holiest duty." The speaker gave way, to Wagnerian music Hitler's favority includ ing the "Twilight of the Gods." Some close observers of Nazi propaganda methods suspected that the frantic splurge on the V-2 might be designed in part to cover up the strange absence of Hitler. 11 Leased Wire V-2 Rockets also was a discussion of myster ious gigantic sites captured by allies in France as possible typi cal launching places for the rockets. Prime Minister Churchill backed up the experts in part to day when he told Commons that some of the launching platforms had been overrun by the allies on Walcheren island in south west Holland. EARTH SHUDDERS, DEBRIS SHOWERS WHEN V-2 FALLS By Cyril Wineh United Press Corresponderit Somewhere in England, Nov. 10 (U.R) Everything happened at once. .. Timber, glass, soot, thick clay, plaster and pieces of roof slating all seemed to hit me at the same time. Along with the shower came a shuddering' vibration of the earth and a noise unlike any thing I had ever heard. I fought hard to keep my feet. but the blast was too strong. De bris seemed to fall for more than five - minutes, but actually it couldn't have been more than a few seconds. I know what bombs are like, .what it is like to be buried un der the debris of a house wrecked " by " a flying bomb, what it Is like to be in battle when you are losing. .Now I have undergone a stag gering new sensation having a rocket crash where I had been a few minutes earlier. A few minutes was all, and ever since I have been thanking the Lord for my escape that night. Harold Brown Gets 19 Write-In Votes For Constable Job Write-in for constable for the Medford districts showed the usual number of whimsi cal votes being cast at last Tuesday's election. Harold Brown received the majority of 19 votes with E. E. Mc Kinney a close second with 18. Break-down of the ballot ing gave Arthur Perry 4, C. E. (Pop) Gates 5, Bert Mc Donald 5, Nick Young 3, Guy Tex 3, Clifford Wheelock 3, Herb Grey 3, George Mead 3 and V. T. Stonecypher 3. Alexander Graham Bell was of Scottish-American decent. Armistice Day Urged By Mayor C. A. Meeker Urging the observance of Armistice Day by the people of Med ford, Mayor C. A. Meeker today Issued the following. statement and proclamation: , "The hour of 11 o'clock A. M.,' November 11, -1918, marked cessation of hostilities in World War I and each year thereafter the people of the United States, and particularly the ex-service men who participated in said war, have celebrated the anniver sary of Armistice Day as the termination of hostilities and have also observed the anniversary of Armistice Day in memory of the soldiers and sailors who made the supreme sacrifice in World War I. "We are engaged in World participants and many of our young men have and will again make the supreme sacrifice for our country and it is particularly fitting and proper that the anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 1944, be fittingly observed, not only as a day of celebration and of memoriam but also with the thought that the present War be successfully terminated as soon as may be possible and as a re minder to all of us of the hardships and dangers that are being and will be incurred by our present service men, and having in mind the above: ' "I HEREBY PROCLAIM Armistice Day, November 11, 1944, as a day to be observed by the people of the City of Medford and urge the people of the City of Medford, as a reminder of all the things Armistice Day stands for, to participate with the ex-service men of World War I and service men of World War II In the cele bration of said day and to observe the same in memory of the men who in World War I and In World War II have made the supreme I sacrifice for our country. ' ' v iv LA XT ' j MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 6 MORE JAP SENT TO BOTTOM Light Cruiser, Plane Tender and Tanker Among Latest Prey; Total Over 1,000. Washington, Nov. 10. (U.R) American submarines have sunk six more Japanese vessels, in cluding a light cruiser, the navy disclosed today. The latest bag brings to 984 the number of enemy vessels hit' by American submarines in this war 831 sunk, 37 probably sunk, and 118 damaged. Due to the navy's recent policy oj not reporting enemy craft probably sunk and damaged by sub marines, the actual total is now well over 1,000 enemy -vessels. Besides the cruiser sunk, to day's announcement included one medium converted seaplane tender, three medium cargo ves sels, and one tanker. By United Press Bitter fighting raged on the narrow stretches of Ormoc cor ridor on Leyte island today after Japanese poured in heavy rein forcements, and Tokyo radio claimed two major, successes in the conquest of China capture oi Lluchow and Kweilln. Difficult terrain, made worse by torrential rains, slowed U. S. tanks on Leyte, but the Ameri cans apparently, still 'held the initiative. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced the enemy had replaced the 35,000 troops killed, cap tured or wounded in the first three weeks of fighting on Leyte and . was still pouring in rein forcements from nearby islands. MacArthur indicated the new Japanese .commander in the Philippines, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, had decided to risk all on the battle of Leyte. An American victory, presumably. would leave the rest of the Phil ippines comparatively open. Hearing On Doris Cromwell's Nevada Divorce Postponed Reno N,ev., Nov. 10. (UiR) Hearing on Doris Duke Crom well's motion to amend her Ne vada divorce proceedings today was continued until Monday to allow Washoe county district Judge William McKnight time to read and consider voluminous depositions. George Thatcher, of the law firm of Thatcher and Woodburn, in final arguments, asked con firmation of the decree granted Mrs. Cromwell here Dec. 21, 1943. He also asked annulment of the New Jersey proceedings which Cromwell claimed voided the Nevada . decree. . Thatcher claimed the New Jresey courts had no .urisdiction over the sub ject nor either of the two parties. He pointed out Cromwell had claimed residence in New Jersey but said the former minister to Canada had not been in resi dence there since 1940. Observance War n with substantially the same "C. A. MEEKER, Mayor." ROOSEVELT GETS T WELCOME 4-Time Winner Acclaimed In Procession To . White House While Rain Pours. Washington, Nov. 10 U.R) The four-time winner and still champion came home today arid was acclaimed by thousands in a triumphal victory procession to the White House. The jovial Franklin D. Roosevelt, despite a steady rain, responded to the cheers of the admiring throngs and drove through the heart of the city in an open car. Rides Hatless Hatless and buttoned to his neck in a black navy rain cape, he rode from the Union station with Vice President Henry A. Wallace and. Vice ' President elect Harry S. Truman, both sitting at his left. Mr. Roosevelt waved to the sodden crowds in front of the station, smiled, and said: . "I honA it won't h tntlm-tari that I expect to make Washing ton my permanent residence for the rest of my life." He laueheri. his neighbors cheered, the flashlight bulbs ex- pioaea, tne reporters and secret service agents crowded around his car, both the army and navy Danas tootled In a hap-hazard unison, and Mr. Roosevelt sailed down Pennsylvania avenue with earens screaming and head- iignts Boring into the 9. a. m. gloom. r '. Rain Pours '. , ,t J, , The President nrrivirl hv'snA. cial train from Hyde Park at 8:20 a. m., awaited in the sta tion until f) n'rlnnlr hafnra nlllnft into his car, and emerged just as there spread, over the city, a cloud as black as a kitten's ear. The chauffeurs s'witnhprl nn their headlights, the government cierKs lining tne walks snapped up their umbrellas, the police standins everv 15 feet buckled their panchos around their necks, and as soon as President Roosevelt started to talk the rain poured down harder than ever. . , The bandsmen struggled to Drotect their drums, tn mriln experts tried to cover their ma chinery with their raincoats and hundreds of banners, bear ing such slogans as "A United Nation for United Victory" and "We're United with Roosevelt and World Peace" turned into ribbons of wet cardboard. President Roosevelt uu- m.t inside the station by his cab inet and such stalwarts of his administration as Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in her fancy triangular storm proof hat, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, Post master General Frank Walker, Acting Secretary of State Ed ward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secre tary of War Henry C. Stlmson, and Secretary of Interior Har old L. Ickes. . . Washington, Nov. 10. U.R) War Production Board Chairman J. A. Krug today notified the nation's grain beverage distillers that they will be. permitted to make liquor again during Janu ary. He said the distillers' facili ties will not be required for manufacture of industrial alco hol during that month. The re lease of the facilities for produc tion of liquor follows WPB pol icy of releasing production not needed for war production. SHARK BOAT SUNK San Francisco, Nov. 10. (U.R) A navy vessel of an undis closed type rammed and sank 52-foot shark boat, Sun Tower, five miles off the Golden Gate Wednesday, the 12th Naval Dis trict announced today. The five crew members were rescued, un injured, by second navy boat They said the Sun Tower was outbound when it was struck from the rear by the navy ves sel which proceeded on- its course. HOLIDAY Tribune United Pi au full 1944 Third Army Storms CuiXlMiQUItG7AJ 71 J 'ifltiiiiif ) . . VKriMnlHHi VmWNHUM Sku I wb SAAR'IASIN; 7 . AJvs.m.-V f ATjANCTtClnmlnot .Hvjmms. f Iumii L JL ... iiaow ' V iS- jRhlM.MrniCinol GERMANY , f , SWITZERLAND "V- The V. B. Third ArmV drive to endrls and topple Metz gathers steam as General Patton sent more division Into action both north and south of vital fortress city. The town of Cleminot was captured. Jubilant F. D. R. Confesses He Underestimated Strength Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt, back at the White House in jubilant mood, confessed to a news conference today that he had guessed the electoral vote would be 335 for himself and 196 for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. ' ; In the latest actual returns to day, Mr. Roosevelt had won or was leading in states with 432 electoral votes against 99 for Dewey. At his first press conference since his fourth-term victory, the president fumbled through a litter of papers and memoranda on his desk and came up with a tiny slip of yellow ' paper on which he had written his pre election forecast. , He read it and. then said he was not very accurate. ' Asked whether he had won his 25-cent bet with Frank J. Lewis of Chicago on 'the outcome in one undisclosed state, he said that he had called the bet off be cause he had gotten scared. While Mr. Roosevelt's confer ence was largely a session of cheerful banter, there were these serious news developments: 1. Asked about another meet- F T Official count for contested offices completed today by the Jackson county canvassing board shows Commissioner Ar thur E. Powell, Republican of Central Point, defeated Ralph G Jennings, Democrat, by 2,011 votes. The count was: Powell, 8,137. Jennings, 6,126. For justice of the peace, Med ford district, W. P. (Tuck) Tuck er, Incumbent Republican, won over Fred Kelly, Democrat, by a vote of 5,899 to 3, ,61, a lead of 2,538 votes. -In the Ashland justice district. Mrs. Nellie Burns was named justice of the peace with 3,585 votes, and John Pittenger w named constable with S60 vote-. H. C. Mechem with 563 votes, and Ike Coffman with 560 votes, were named justice and con stable for Jacksonville. W. C. McLean polled 634 for Gold Hill constable. I The official voto for uncon tested state and county offices was: Representative: Frank J. Van Dyke, 9,375. O. H. Bengtson, 9,113. For county clerk, George R. Carter, 12,269; assessor, C. A. Myers, 11,197; coroner, H. W. Conger, 12,029. For treasurer, Ralph Sweeney, the lone Demo crat on the county ticket, re ceived 12,029. All ran on a Democrat-Republican ticket. Counting of the vote on meas ures started today, and will be i completed- early next week. s. LMMd Wis NO. 197. Metz Defenses ing between himself, Prime Min ister Churchill and Premier Stalin, the president confirmed that they did want to meet again when it could be arranged. But he said that nothing had been worked out as to time and place, and that when the time and place were determined, he would not tell the reporters about It. ' 2. He said he had heard noth ing yet from Dewey. 9. Asked about the appoint ment of a new ambassador to China, the president said he had not thought about it recently. 4. Asked when he intends to appoint a board to supervise the war surplus property administra tion, the president said this was being held up by one name and that he was waiting to hear from this person.- S. He said Secretary of State Cordell Hull, now in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., is get ting along well and he supposed he would be back on the job at the state department soon. 8. Asked whether he had re ceived a peace feeler from Ger many, the president said no and commented that the question sounded to him like a pre-election inquiry. "Let me be the first to ask you if you are going to run in 1948," a reporter asked. Mr. Roosevelt roared with laughter, saying he was asked the same question in 1940 or was it 1936? but that at any rate It was a hoary question. REDS HOTLINE T London, Nov. 10 (U.R) A Moscow communique reported tonight that the Red army had cut the railroad running north west from Budapest to Miskolc. Soviet troops advanced through several localities east of Budapest, the communique said. It reported the capture of 4100 German and Hungarian troops between the Danube and Tisza rivers on November 8 and 9. Thanksgiving Birds Place Under OPA Ceiling Price List, San Francisco, Nov. 10. (U.R) Turkey, the holiday bird, had an OPA price tag put on him to day. Maximum retail prices that may be charged for turkeys and other poultry Items were an nounced today by the district Of fice of Price Administration. Live turkeys will retail -t 43 cents a pound, and the dressed variety will sell for 51 cents. These prices apply to top grade young turkeys of all weights. Roasting chickens will cost 46 cents pound, and stewing chickens of the fowl-fricassee type will sell for 41 cents. Napolcan Bonaparte died in 1821, T ENTER ACTION ON NAZI SOFT SPOT Slow but Steady Progress Is Made Toward Rear Great German Fortifications. Paris, Nov. 10 (U.R) Amer ican troops and armor swung through a 20-mile breach in the German line hplnur MaH Ai4aw after seizing the anchor towns oi Liouvigny and Chateau Salins, while other 3d army forces to the north hrilshoH neMa Nazi counterattacks and pushed on to with n in miles n v, turned guns of the old Maginot line. - Lt. Gen. George S. Patton'a tank formations, held out of the battle throughout the first 72 hours of the Metz offensive, swung into action all along the front between Chateau Salins and Louvlffnv In an pffnrf tn nv. ploit a soft spot uncovered in the Nazi defenses. Steady Progress Field dispatches said the ar mored units were making slow, but steady progress through the gap, wheeling northeastward to ward the rear of the Metz forti fications. Deep mud resulting from heavy rains and snowstorms of the past 48 hours hampered the attacking armored spearheads, but the Germans appeared to be pulling back their southern flank without offering too heavy resistance. North of Metz, however, the Nazis threw in their first de termined counter-attacks since the start of the offensive Wed nesday morning, striking at the 3d army's bridgehead across the Moselle near Koenigsmacher and in the sector east of Malz ieres les Metz. Counters Beaten Off Both counters were beaten off quickly and the Americana thrust out to the east and south east, hrinolni, tv,a i.:tni nr... Saarbourg railway line with in range oi men- big guns. While the scope and power of Patton's offensive appeared to be increasing hourly, only about 1 .nn rn.-. i ,wVV Mummu -iiauiicra were re ported taken In the first three days of the attack, indicating the Nazis were playing safe and not committing themselves in, force to any one sector until they unmasked the main objec tive of the drive. , On the U. S. 1st. army front. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges Infantrymen hammered out a, 800-yard gain west of Hurtgen, but were driven back south of the town after hammering out a similar gain in that sector. More than 1,350 American warplanes, Including 750 heavy bombers resumed the offensive against the German forward bases behind, the 1st and 3d army fronts, hittlns nmn -in fields and communications tar gets in the. Cologne and Frank furt areas. Deweys Leaving For Vacation In South Albany, N. J., Nov. 10. (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, defeat ed Republican presidential can didate. announced today that ha and his family would leave Albany tomorrow for a "two or three week" vacation on Sea Island, Georgia. The governor said that he in tended to take a complete rest and that he did not intend to talk politics with anyone. An as sociate added that.Dewey would be "deaf, dumb and blind to Dolltlcs." N. CALIF0RNIANS FIRM AGAINST-$60 AT 60 San Francisco, Nov. 10 (U.R California voters decisively re pected a proposed constitutional amendment which would have) provided a $60 a month pension to persons over 60 not gainfully employed. Returns from 14,011 of the state's 14,841 precincts gave: yes, on, oar, no, J.H1H.BB3. Returns from 14,671 of 14,841 precincts gave for president: Roosevelt, 1,837,314; Dewey. 1,397,586. Returns from 14,638 precinct gave for U. S. senate: Downey. D., 1,603,852; Houser, R-, 1,498, 739. ROOSEVELT GAINS IN POPULAR VOTE COUNT New York, Nov. 10 (U.R) . The popular presidential vote as tabulated by the United Press at 1:30 p. m., EWT: Roosevelt ...24,381,658 Dewey ,..21,290,588 Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R) . The War Production Board's compliance division today charged the Chicago Sun with excess use of 886.89 tons of newsprint in violation of WPB regulations. -iic wui, a pituuauvu vjr Midi- shall Field.